Picking Over The Dead: Michael Jackson’s Predatory Siblings

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Picking Over The Dead: Michael Jackson’s Predatory Siblings

By Elizabeth C.

THE RANDOM HOUSE COLLEGE DICTIONARY, REVISED EDITION, DEFINES VULTURE as “any of several large, primarily carrion-eating Old World birds of prey of the family Accipitridae, related to the hawks and eagles.

Colloquially, “vultures”
is a derogatory term “for panhandlers after their method of sizing up who looks the most vulnerable to be hit up on for money, like the bird species which swoops around looking for what they think are weak and/or injured animals to consume.”

I can’t shake the image of Michael Jackson’s siblings Randy, Jermaine, Janis and Rebbie — as scavengers seeking to dine on the dead.

These four siblings have put the public on alert that they’re ready and willing to feast on the vulnerable. Nearly two weeks after Michael’s 82-year-old mother went missing, details now emerge suggesting that family’s matriarch was deceived and deliberately kept incommunicado from her legal charges, Michael’s three children, Prince Jr.,15, Paris, 14, and “Blanket,” 10. The four siblings have accused executors John Branca and John McClain “of everything from coercing family matriarch Katherine Jackson, to mishandling business deals, to getting too high of a cut for themselves from those same deals,” according to ABC Newss.

In a statement filed in California court Thursday, Mrs. Jackson revealed that she was duped into visiting an Arizona spa and kept incommunicado from her grandchildren. She was told the kids were “fine” even though granddaughter Paris had tweeted to the world that her grandmother was missing. The elderly Jackson temporarily lost legal custody of the kids because she had no contact with them for about 10 days.

“At the time, I trusted the people I was with to be honest with me,” she states in documents filed Thusday.

During her absence, Janet and Jermaine and Randy confronted Michael’s kids at their Calabasas, Calif. home. Executors of the estate have since banished them and their families from the children’s palatial estate.

On Thursday, Mrs. Jackson was reinstated as “co-guardian” of the three children, heirs to Michael’s $500 million fortune; she will share custody with Michael’s nephew T.J., who has taken on a fatherly role toward the children.

Just a day before, Jermaine Jackson withdrew his signature from a letter written earlier demanding that Michael’s executors withdraw as managers. “Mistakes have been made and irrational things have been said on both sides in a highly-charged emotional environment,” he wrote on Twitter.

“Janet, Randy and Rebbie’s principal concern has been and continues to be for the safety and well-being of Michael’s children, their mother Katherine Jackson, and the entire family,” Brown’s statement reads. “Unfortunately, those people have been harmed by the actions of the executors of Michael’s estate…. and those installed and paid to do their bidding….”

The statement claims the three siblings have “no financial motive whatsoever,” but nevertheless ” will continue to press forward in their search for the truth in our to carry out the wishes of their brother Michael.”

In their own statement, executors have pointed out that charges against them were “completely debunked” in court two years earlier. But don’t expect the siblings to stop trying because that’s what vultures do: pick at the dead until nothing is left.